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Every successful software company eventually builds 2 products.

1️⃣ The one customers buy.

2️⃣ The engineering foundations that enable it - auth, monitoring, security, audit, pipelines...

Most teams never plan for the second one.

Some thoughts on why 👇

https://t.co/evNtlKu3mf

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

"What 'production-ready' actually means - and why most teams discover it too late." by @_get_forge #DEVCommunity

https://t.co/7Yia0AqNdc

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

I’ve repeatedly seen teams spend enormous effort rebuilding the same foundations: auth, audit, observability, deployment pipelines, security controls etc. I'd guesstimate up to 60% of engineering can be focused on non-domain features or differentiators https://t.co/N46QNuooxt

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

Going fully remote was nice, but the real benefit was in going fully asynchronous. Here are a list of the benefits we've seen at @Gumroad:

A thread 👇🏽

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

@scottwambler It’s a shame but I think you’re correct @scottwambler. Too often the governance does not come from an IT authority (by which I mean Engineer I guess)

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

The documented explanations I've found aren't always the clearest, so for anyone else who prefers a visual explanation of the differences between AWS dedicated tenancy types this video pretty much nails it https://t.co/0jcx5l1XVk #aws #ec2 #awssecurityspecialty

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

@sigje Marketing nonsense.

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

Anyone used AWS Artifact? Is it binding and in some way enforced (via one of the other Services)? Not sure how meaningful it is otherwise... 🤔 #aws #artifact #awsartifact @awscloud

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

Anyone out there born on 2012-10-17 called Jason? #aws #iam #json Your Dad is a legend 🤓

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

@rebwriteswrongs Yep. 20 years in Software Engineering. Sold my house and shutdown my business and tried to sail around the world. Got from London to the Philippines, Covid obviously 🙄 Now settling in Canada and looking for my next career move...

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

@basecamp You sure? I’d be keen to know more as and when this changes if you think I can help... For the record, I can appreciate your current positioning #BasecampGate

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

@mattwynne I prefer to call it Business Debt. The Business pays the bill and I try to incorporate everyone into ownership, not just sweep it under the carpet as Tech’s problem... Dragons 🐉 does sound cooler though 😁

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

Any thoughts on a document metadata tool to capture (and NOT store) a fractured documentation system? I just want to capture where the documents are and some info about them, not migrate them to some other system. (please don't say Excel 🙈) #dms #opensource #document #metadata

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

@BetaKit Hugely disappointing to hear this. Having recently moved to Canada from the UK my gut feel is the Canadian tech scene is about 10yrs behind the UK. Plenty of opportunity, but also requires the regulators to up their game! Come on, Canada 🇨🇦 move with the times! 👏🏼

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

Disappointing. https://t.co/wfQyGk1Q5F Perhaps he should read this article? Considering they're a #tech company and all... #braindrain #remote #backwards @GSCareers @GoldmanSachs

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

Why #remoteworking is here to stay

[Scott W. Ambler @scottwambler]

No matter what industry you think you're in, your organization is a software company.

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

@skamille Hotter than the centre of the Sun last time I checked 🔥

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@googlenews not everyone in the UK watches football! 🙄 Can you improve my news feed thank you please 🙏🏽

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

Nice https://t.co/q3zHGlM0xB How to change your menu bar colour after upgrading to @Apple #Mac #BigSur 🍏👍🏽

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

@bryndavies Just got my (albeit demo) server running in 18ms, thanks to @poornerd's article.

[Forge Platform @_get_forge]

Woah. Sweet. Lightening fast JVM startup with @graalvm and @micronautfw via https://t.co/tkOp3ZfACa